It feels old-school baseball drafting now. ADP is mostly meaningless. You're just picking guys you like. That's how this game used to be. We had no idea what the market thought until Baseball Weekly came out after our auction. And even then. Now we're a bunch of accountants.

And I get it. I think genius drafting ignoring ADP is dumb. Like I think buying a baseball card based on what you think it's worth versus what the market thinks it's worth is dumb. We have prices on everything. It's just, quite frankly, much less fun.

The great Alex Patton, whorevolutionized thinking deeply about fantasy baseball auctions, said home leagues inevitably reach third stage. Where your mother who knows nothing about baseball can just bid $1 more on every player until she had a roster. No one would let her overpay.

And really that's where we are now, whether you auction or draft, everyone goes around where they should. Maybe you take a guy a round early but you know exactly what you're doing. Maybe in auctions you jump bid or do other gamesmanship. But there are guard rails now.

Anyway, join a $150 or whatever league now, draft only, and feel a little how we all used to feel playing this game. My best memories are arguing with my home league about who was right and who was wrong without anyone having any consensus to point to. Just what we thought.

You know I won all these arguments. I win them whether I'm right or wrong. ESPECIALLY when I'm wrong. But even there, we kept score and you had to eventually eat crow.